This Holiday Ad Starring a Boy and His Penguin Is So Sweet

Prepare to bring out the tissues.

It's that wonderful time of the year again, when television-watching becomes increasingly filled with visually stunning and incredibly moving Christmas commercials that leave you wiping away happy tears. This year's first contestant comes from John Lewis, the UK department store giant that's behind the "Bear and the Hare" Christmas commercial that went viral yesteryear.

It begins, as so many good stories do, with a little boy and his best friend, Monty the Penguin. Like true besties, Little Boy and Monty do everything together. They play "hide and seek," read bedtime stories to each other under their room tent, take walks and play sports. Monty even helps Little Boy build with lego sets by bringing him the pieces with his tiny beak!

But as much fun as they have, Little Boy can tell that, for Monty, something is missing. Every time Monty sees a couple, whether it's on TV or while riding the bus, a sad, wistful look comes over his face. Monty is lonely. And Little Boy realizes he needs a lady penguin to love.

So, like a true best friend, Little Boy wakes up Monty on Christmas morning and shows him his holiday surprise: a life companion!

But that's not it. Just when you think it's over, the video takes a surprising, but heartwarming, turn...

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